Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1887-08-18
WASHINGTON.

ENGINEER-IN-CHIEF Cnarl0S A. LOr1Lg
has resigned as head of the bureau of
steam engineering of the navy depart
ment, and Chief Engineer George W.
Melville has been appointed by the presi-
dent in his place.
COMMANDER PICKERING, who has been
for some years naval secretary of the
light house board, has been assigned to
the command of the United States steam
or Michigan on the lakes.
The Marine Hospital Bureau is inform
ed that smallpox and yellow fever are
raging in Havana, Cuba. During the
month of July there were 1O4 deaths
f, ON yellow fever and 112 deaths from
! smallpox.
The sum of $5,462,OOO in AZ bonds
was offered for redemption on Wednes-
day, at the national treasury. The secre-
tary accepted the offer of the Suffolk
bank, of Boston, for $26O,OOO registered
bonds at / 10 fat. All the other propos
ais were rejected, as the rates were not
considered favorable.
CONSUL KENNEDY of Shanghai cables the
state department that some high Chinese
officials will arrive at San Francisco about
the end of August on important business.
He bespeaks for them a good reception.
| Nothing more than is contained in the
| telegram is known at the department.
about the matter.
| MOONEY, the man who attempted to blow
up the English steamer Queen at New
York, the other day is well known to the
London police, who say that he caused
explosion of the Glasgow gasworks in
1882, and attempted to blow up the par
liam ent buildings at Ottawa, Canada. He
was once an accomplice of the Fenian
McDermott.
VICE CONSUL MITCHELL, at Pedras Ne
| gras, Mexico, reports to the state depart
ment under date July %, that James H
Duval, a citizen of the United States, and
native of Mobile, who has been resid-
| ing in Santa Rosa, state of Coahuila, for
! several years, engaged in mining, was
murdered on July 2, He had started for
the Cedral mines with $3.50 to pay his
employees, and when about two miles from
the mines was shot TIN ough the head The
authorities had arrested several persons
on suspicion.
! DIRECTOR of the Mint Kimball. refer
ring TO the comments upon the fact that
| the silver dollar is not now coined at Phil
adelphia, said "Just at present we are
not coming the silver dollar at Philadel-
phia because of the new steam plant
page of the work. There seems to be an
impression in the minds of some that the
non coinage of the dollar was for the
purpose of contraction, but it is wholly
on account of the renewing of our ma
chinery, and just as soon as we get to
work we will make up for lost time, but
while Philadelphia is not at work on the
dollars San Francisco is coming 100000
of them to help make up the deficiency"
Painless Regulation.
| 1t is no longer question of doubt-although
| the contrary was once beleved-that medicines
| which produce violent effects are unsuited to
/ other than desperate emergencies In other
| words, that Super-potent remedies calculated
| to weaken and injure the system rather than re-
! form its irregularities. Among medicines of de-
bilitating effect are cathartics and cholagos ues
which copiously and abruptly. evacuate the bow
! els. Because it does not do this, IIostetter'S
| Stomach Bitters is preferable to the drenching
class of purgativeS. Painless in It's effects, it is
| sufficiently active to remedy chronic constipa-
/ ton. 1t relieves by invgorating the intestineS,
enables, not forces them to perform the DUTY
| imposed upon them by nature Promoting the
| secretion of bile in normal quantities by its
heathfuily stimulating effect upon the liver, it is
eminently conducive to digestion, and contributes
! in no small degree to keep the bowels regular.
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